{"id":5465,"date":"2011-11-01T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5465"},"modified":"2018-07-17T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:57:56","slug":"mechwarrior-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/mechwarrior-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"MechWarrior Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10751\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10751\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10751\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MechWarrior-Online-S.jpg\" alt=\"Concept art for MechWarrior Online.\" width=\"272\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concept art for MechWarrior Online.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOV. 1, 2011 \u2022 The one hugely popular MechWarrior franchise is set to return during the second half of 2012 in the form of a free-to-play online squad title by Vancouver-based Piranha Games. Gameplay in MechWarrior Online will be based on matches between four-person teams. while these matches will not take place in a persistent world, the actual results information from these battles will be persistent. Virtual items that can purchased online are not expected to manifestly enhance combat abilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: MechWarrior was a popular hard-core gaming franchise of the 1990s.\u00a0The last major release was MechWarrior 4 in 2000 published by Microsoft.\u00a0Microsoft acquired the developer FASA Studios with the goal of making mech games a major attraction of Xbox Live.\u00a0MechAssault from FASA was one of the featured titles for the launch of Xbox Live in 2002.\u00a0However, mech games are somewhat of a niche for the console environment.\u00a0A franchise like MechWarrior is ideally suited for a PC free-to-play game.\u00a0 The whole point is to build robots and machines for fighting. For now, virtual items are not intended to provide a combat edge, but in our view, down the line this might change as a mech game is all about acquiring the special items that make you a stronger competitor.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 1, 2011 \u2022 The one hugely popular MechWarrior franchise is set to return during the second half of 2012 in the form of a free-to-play online squad title by Vancouver-based Piranha Games. Gameplay in MechWarrior Online will be based on matches between four-person teams. while these matches will not take place in a persistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,66],"tags":[88,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13514,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/13514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}